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NEW DELHI: The Centre has sought the Attorney General's opinion on the Mulayam Singh Yadav government's petition seeking the early release of independent MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh, aka Raja Bhaiya. The former minister has been in jail under Pota for over a year-and-a-half now, and his fate has acquired the shape of a tug-of-war between the Samajwadi Party and the BJP, which are out to draw political mileage from the issue. A history-sheeter whose name spells terror in areas adjoining Pratapgarh, Raja Bhaiya today finds himself as the tallest Rajput leader in the state.

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav's seeming inability to distance his party from perceived association with criminals has been reinforced with the resignation of Cabinet minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh, alias Raja Bhaiya, following allegation of involvement in the murder of a police officer. Raja Bhaiya, the Pratapgarh strongman who submitted his resignation as food and civil supplies minister on Monday after being booked for murder of deputy superintendent of police Zia-ul-Haq, had dozens of criminal cases pending against him when he was inducted into the Cabinet.

DEORIA: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today met the family of slain DSP Zia-ul-Haq at his native village and said they will get justice in the case in which former Uttar Pradesh minister Raja Bhaiya has been booked by CBI for murder. Heavy security arrangements were put in place in the village in Deoria district for the visit which was kept under wraps till the last hour. "The entire Congress is with them in this hour of great tragedy and loss and they will get full justice," the Congress leader told reporters at the burial ground where he paid tribute to the slain police officer after meeting his family at their home in Jaffuar tola here.

PRATAPGARH: UP government will fully cooperate with the investigation into the killing of a police officer and village head in Kunda in the district for which it has recommended a CBI probe, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said today. Visiting the family of the slain village head Nanhe Yadav , he described the killings as "very tragic" and said "things would be clear only after completion of the CBI inquiry". UP Police had yesterday virtually ruled out immediate arrest of Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya booked in the murder of DSP Zia-ul-Haq and said it needs to be established first who committed the crime before the conspiracy angle can be probed.

PRATAPGARH : Former Uttar Pradesh Minister RaghurajPratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya was today questioned by CBI in connection with the murder of a village head and KundaDSPZia-UlHaq . CBI sources said 44-year-old Raja Bhaiya appeared at the makeshift agency office for his questioning. Last month, CBI had arrested one Bhulle Pal, a security guard with the then state Minister Bhaiya, who allegedly led a mob, enraged by the killing of Balipur village head Nanhe Yadav, to kill the police officer.

NEW DELHI: The Centre today handed over to CBI the probe into the killings of Pratapgarh Deputy Superintendent Police Zia-ul-Haq and two others following a request from the Uttar Pradesh government . CBI sources said the agency is likely to register today four cases in connection with the incident and start the probe into the killings during Saturday's violence. The name of 44-year-old former UP Minister Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya , who has a criminal record and has been jailed in the past, figures in the FIR lodged by the slain officer's wife Parveen Azad in which he has been accused of criminal conspiracy.

NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh CM Mulayam Singh Yadav's outreach to sections outside the pale of his core constituency is proving to be a strenuous exercise with the coalition already beginning to creak under inherent contradictions. Even as the Samajwadi Party leader, currently savouring his image as a mature politician ? a far cry from his 'hulla bole' days when he sought to consolidate his hold among the OBCs and minorities by pitting them against the upper castes, continues with his coalition-building, the pitfalls in his path have become evident with fellow Yadavs protesting against the reprieve he's planning for independent MLA, Raghuraj Pratap Singh, better known in political circles as Raja Bhaiya.

PRATAPGARH/LUCKNOW: As questions remained today whether the killing of a police officer in which Raja Bhaiya has been booked was planned, a postmortem showed the victim was beaten up before being shot dead. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav was non-committal on demands by opposition including by arch rival and BSP supremo Mayawati for the arrest of Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya, who is facing conspiracy charge, saying action will be taken against those found guilty.

KUNDA: A team of CBI, now here to probe the murder of DSP Zia-ul Haq and related violence here, visited the crime scene late this evening along with a suspended police officer to match the chain of events with the claims made by him about the incident. Controversial Uttar Pradesh politician Raghuraj Pratap Singh, alias Raja Bhaiya , was on Thursday booked by CBI on the charge of murder in connection with the killing of Zia in Kunda in Pratapgarh last Saturday after the probe into the case was handed over to the central investigating agency.

DEORIA: The widow of slain police officer Zia-Ul-Haq has refused to accept the job offered by the Uttar Pradesh government saying that she would not accept anything other than a DySP's post. Parveen Azad who has been maintaining distance from the media, today told the visiting leader of Loktantrik Congress HarishankaTewari that she would not accept any job less than DySP . Vowing to continue her struggle, Azad said that she was not fighting for herself but to ensure that no one dared to raise hand on those donning the khaki uniform of the police force.